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The album was nominated for the 2015 Mercury prize but lost to Benjamin Clementine.Gerard Mourou and Donna green reward nandos Strickland developed a method of generating high intensity ultra-short optical pulses.In a press conference following their win, she said that you get given almost 300 albums to listen.Jazz four-piece Sons of Kemet got the biggest commercial boost, with.3 uplift; Florence the Machine had the second biggest,32.8; with Jorja Smith gaining.8.Wolf Alice are the first female-fronted act to win the award since 2011, when PJ Harvey won for a second time with her eighth album, Let England Shake.I was surprised, he said, but not surprised.Nadine Shah performs at the ceremony.

Allen suggested that this was due to male industry executives who felt threatened by the #MeToo movement wielding their power against women.Why are there only two debut albums?Prior to the ceremony, the band described it as a substantial amount of money that would allow any band to record an album with high production values.The Mercury judges line.The Nobel Prize in Physics has just been awarded to three scientists for their "groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics." And, for the first time in more than half a century, a woman Donna Strickland is one of the winners.Photo courtesy of Alex Sable-Smith, related posts, category: Biomedical research.In one oft-told family anecdote, Sable-Smith held up a square sponge in the bathtub and told his father it was a sequencing gel, an old method for decoding DNA.The singers publicist was holding a copy of the book, which has been the subject of tabloid intrigue, as Allen walked the red carpet and welcomed the recognition for her musical achievements.These are simplistic ways of thinking about what is scientifically very complex.When, alex Sable-Smith s phone jarred him from a deep sleep at.m.

He felt a storm of emotion: excitement, happiness, pride.But in all seriousness, as Sable-Smith contemplates finding a tuxedo with white tie and tails and a ticket to the Stockholm ceremony, hes also reflecting on how his father influenced his aspirations and outlook.For another, he says his father engendered an appreciation of the spirit of science, embodied as curiosity, exploration and creativity.